Dzongsar Quotes

#1. We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Joel Fuhrman

#2. You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

Bernhard Schlink

#3. Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

#4. Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

#5. And those who love us most lie to us most of all,

Ilona Andrews

#6. It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The

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#7. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

Lemony Snicket

#8. An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

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#9. Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

#10. Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.

Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro

#11. If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and no one would be starving. Such advances are technologically and physically possible, but apparently not emotionally possible.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

#12. I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

Bela Karolyi

#13. A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.

Emily Bronte

#14. Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

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#15. It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.

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#16. Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.

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#17. I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

Robert Redford

#18. Much of the world is jealous of the United States. Many of the religious and political fanatics who ridicule and criticize the U.S., calling Americans "Satanists" and "imperialists," would fall head over heels for a green card, if they don't already have one.

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#19. Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die.

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#20. Relaxation is the beginning of creativity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha

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#22. [from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time.

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#23. The Vajrayana is the path of the rug being pulled out from under your feet, so you need someone who knows how to do that.

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#24. It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.

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#25. If you dream that you are flying and continue to believe that you can fly even after you wake up, that becomes a problem.

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#26. Feminist movement is pro-family.

Bell Hooks

#27. There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings ... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

Vince Carter

#28. I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Alison Bechdel

#29. We are like monkeys who dwell in the forest and shit on the very branches from which we hang.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

#30. That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

Rabindranath Tagore

#31. it looks dualistic, but it has that ability to liberate you from the bondage of dualism.

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#32. One is a Buddhist if he or she accepts the following four truths: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All things have no inherent existence. Nirvana is beyond concepts.

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#33. In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Pope John Paul II

#34. The truth with reveal itself when man frees his mind, begins to ask questions, and learns to doubt. Especially the doubt in his religious beliefs, intuitions, and the things that he believes in and that are sacred. Virtue and right belief do not exist unless the mind examines itself.

Amany Al-Hallaq

#35. As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche